What did Texas have in common with the other Confederate states?

* All were Southern states. Texas, like the other Confederate states, was located in the southern United States.

* All had large slave populations. Texas, like the other Confederate states, had a large population of enslaved African Americans.

* All were agricultural economies. Texas, like the other Confederate states, was an agricultural economy based on the production of cotton, tobacco, and other crops.

* All were resistant to federal authority. Texas, like the other Confederate states, resisted the federal government's efforts to abolish slavery and increase the power of the federal government.